What should Cards’ mindset be?

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: purely opinionated motivational coach-speak :

The Cardinals need to start compartmentalizing things a bit – focus on winning portions of the game, get a bit more basic.

Before the Cardinals start focusing on winning a series, they need to focus on winning the one game in front of them.

Hell, before that – focus on winning as many innings as you can. Even if it’s 1-0, score more runs than the opponent in innings. Simple, right?

PostScript – I’m not entirely sure I believe all of these, but something has to give, right?

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Writing about the Cardinals and other loosely associated topics since 2008, I've grown tired of the April run-out only to disappoint Cardinal fans everywhere by mid-May. I do not believe in surrendering free outs.